Toplumsal bellek ile tarihi değişimler arasındaki bağlantıları Cezayir kenti üzerinden okuyan bu bildiri, 1533’den 1830’a kadar süren Osmanlı devrinde imparatorluğun politik ideolojisine göre biçimlendirilen kent merkezine 1830-1962 yıllarında Fransız işgali altında gerçekleştirilen kolonyal projelere odaklanıyor. Bunlara yerel direnişi ve kent dokusunun çelişkili hikayesinin günümüze kadar tarihini toplumsal bellek perspektifinden inceliyor.

Biography:

Distinguished Professor of Architecture Zeynep Çelik, PhD, an architectural historian and award-winning author, is noted for her books and scholarly fine arts exhibits illuminating the Ottoman Empire, French colonial architecture and urbanism, and cross-cultural topics. Her most recent museum collaboration, “1001 Faces of Orientalism,” at the Sakip Sabanci Museum, Istanbul, was featured prominently in The New York Times.

Çelik served as the editor of the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (2000-2003). Prior to her most recent collaboration in Turkey, Çelik co-curated “Walls of Algiers” at the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles (May-October 2009) and “Scramble for the Past: A Story of Archaeology in the Ottoman Empire, 1753-1914” at Salt, Istanbul (October 2011-March 2012). Çelik received her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley.